Berlin has no will to rethink its long-held assumption that it can somehow improve Europe-Russia relations by engaging with Moscow from a position of weakness
Gustav Gressler comments on Germany’s relationship with Russia
Berlin has no will to rethink its long-held assumption that it can somehow improve Europe-Russia relations by engaging with Moscow from a position of weakness
Gustav Gressler comments on Germany’s relationship with Russia
Hungary’s actions were part of Orban’s campaign to propagate a ‘decadent, declining EU’ and Hungary’s future in the East, with Russia and China
Gustav Gressel comments on Hungary’s decision to go it alone when it comes to the Sputnik V vaccine
If attention remains high and the West keeps up the pressure, nothing will happen to Nawalny. But if the attention in the West diminishes, I fear the worst for him.
Gustav Gressel is concerned about Navalny’s detention in a Russian prison camp
The German debate on Russia and European security will return to its state in 2005, underestimating the pace at which the world has changed
Gustav Gressel discusses the possible dismantling of Merkel’s Russian policy in her party by her successor, Armin Laschet, and how this will affect the European external politicy as a whole
Gustav Gressel discusses in this podcast Russia’s spying on Ireland – what many now regard as a major threat to Ireland’s national security
Preventing people from vacationing in Europe who torture others at home would not put pressure on the regime
Gustav Gressel believes that travel bans are ineffective against Russia
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny needs to be in Russia, even if imprisoned, to be effective politically in the country
Gustav Gressel speaks about Navalny’s return to Russia
Most of the EU’s armies – especially those of small and medium-sized member states – would do as miserably as the Armenian army in a modern kinetic war
Gustav Gressel’s commentary on the military lessons from the Nagorno-Karabach conflict is quoted
The Azerbaijani armed forces would have cut off the Armenians’ reserves from the battlefield, while they were able to keep their losses low even without direct contact with the enemy
Gustav Gressel on the use of combat drones in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh
Gustav Gressel comments on the military lessons learned from the Nagorno-Karabakh war